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KPhotoAlbum 4.6 released

02 Feb 2015 20:59 +0000

We are happy to release KPhotoAlbum 4.6, a new version of a photo management and tagging application for KDE. Read on to learn about latest changes.

Age view

One of the new features is Age View. This allows you to add the birth date of people on the pictures. Then you can see the age of the persons in the pictures at the time the photo was taken. A really cool feature especially when watching the toddlers grow. Take a look at a demo video to see what it is all about.

Face detection

Face detection and recognition has been requested for ages. And now it has finally landed in KPhotoAlbum. Now it should be even easier to tag the photos with the assistance of face recognition. Again this is demonstrated on a video, enjoy.

New features, bug fixes and other enhancements

Below you can see a list of other changes and bug fixes, which is far from complete.

Enhancement: Allow incremental building of thumbnail cache.

UI: Add slider for resizing the thumbnail grid.

Enhancement: Show a message if the untagged tag feature is misconfigured.

New Feature: Specify the birth date for people (or any other category item for that matter) in Maintanence->Edit Birth Dates, and see their age when viewing images.

New Feature: Add a context menu option to copy images from the thumbnail view.

Thank you to everyone involved.

Git log shows that the following individuals have contributed to the new version. Thank you everyone, and thank you everyone not on the list who have contributed in other ways like translations, documentation, testing and so forth!

Johannes Zarl

Tobias Leupold

Jesper K. Pedersen

Pino Toscano

Yuri Chornoivan

Miika Turkia

— Miika

KPhotoAlbum 4.5 released

15 Jul 2014 18:00 +0000

Today we are happy to release KPhotoAlbum 4.5, a new version of a photo management and tagging application for KDE. Read on to learn about all of these changes - there are quite a few, after all it has been a year and a half since KPhotoAlbum 4.4 was released.

Android client of KPhotoAlbum

If you have an Android tablet (and a spouse or a kid that would like to see your images) then this is likely the most interesting change to you. If you don't have all of the above, then it likely doesn't mean much to you :-)

The Android client is available on google play. It requires KPhotoAlbum 4.5 as the client isn't a stand alone application, but rather a viewer for your existing database running on the desktop.

Positional Tags

This feature was contributed by Tobias Leupold, welcome to the KPhotoAlbum team!

Improved saving speed

When I did a git log to see exactly what had changed since the latest release, I was surprised to see this on the list, as I was rather sure it already was in the previous release. I was wrong, so read this blog on speeding up saving to see what is in store for you.

Lots of other changes

Below you can see a list of other changes and bug fixes, which is far from complete.

New Feature: Added an Android client, which can display images from
a running KPhotoAlbum on the desktop

New Feature: Tags can now be associated with an area of the image.

Enhancement: Backspace now shows the previous image in the Viewer

Enhancement: Implement file copy dialog in the Viewer.

Enhancement: Added option to ignore specific EXIF comments.
(Some digital cameras set a non-configurable EXIF comment in each image.
With this option you can specify which comments should be ignored.)

Bugfix (#254641): The current image is now highlighted when selecting images
using the keyboard.

Enhancement: On first start, the image folder defined in KDE settings is used.

Bugfix: find thumbnail even for short videos (Thanks to Christoph Moseler for identifying the problem, and sending an initial patch)

Enhancement: Implemented the Page-Up and Page-Down key presses to select the previous and next image in the annotation dialog

Bugfix: Fix image import for kim files with external images.

Bugfix: Fix crash when reading .kim files.

Enhancement: Updated HTML darkJS theme

New Feature: Maintainance->sort all by date and time (With this command, you don't have to worry about stacks, locked images, or similar)

Bugfix: Prevent thumbnail progress bar from showing indefinitely when no MPlayer is installed.

Preview of KPhotoAlbum for Andoid

12 May 2014 13:00 +0000

Over the last few month, I've worked hard on a KPhotoAlbum version for Android.
The way that it works is that the android application will connect to a running KPhotoAlbum instance on your desktop, to allow you to browse through your images as if you were sitting behind the desktop.

Anyway, a picture is worth a thousand words, so a video must be worth a thousand pictures, so please check out this video on youtube which shows it all in action.

This is the first alpha version available, it has its glitches, but it works quite well nevertheless, so please do give it a try, and report back to me directly (blackie@kde.org) or to the KPhotoAlbum mailing list.

To use it, you need booth an Android version for your tablet or phone (KPhotoAlbum version 0.0.4 from google play), and you need to compile KPhotoAlbum yourself for the desktop (either from download.kde.org or from git where you need SHA 6897e0b from branch wpi/android)

To compile the desktop version, you need to ensure that the Qt4 version of QMake is found. For me it worked like this:

KPhotoAlbum 4.4

The main improvements on this version are support for libkipi 2.0.0 and
greatly improved save time for the image database. Now it is also
possible to remove duplicate images while merging the tags to the
remaining image. And naturally a couple of bugs got fixed as well.